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7 New Venture Strategies Improve The Odds Of Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. As it turned out, 17 of the 27 companies were still in business seven years later, which is at least double that of other studies.

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7 Startup Habits Investors Read as Staying Power

Startup Professionals Musings

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. As it turned out, 17 of the 27 companies were still in business seven years later, which is at least double that of other studies.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She first had to hound the editors of these journals until they were charmed into letting her a do a guest post and once she had established herself they couldn’t get enough of her.

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Early Predictors of Long-Term Survival for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Here is my own net of those seven habits: Founder is ready, willing, and able to learn.

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Bio Roundup: FDA Says No, PCSK9 Value Fight, CRISPR Intrigue & More

Xconomy

And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. Everyone is waiting until 2017, when huge studies of the drugs’ ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes start to provide data. Talk about sacrifice.

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The Seven Best Habits of Highly Effective Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. Here is my own net of those seven habits: Founder is ready, willing, and able to learn.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. We then got some additional funding, of essentially high net worth individuals, not insittutional funds.

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